- Date
- May 9, 1983, 08:50 local (13:50 UTC)
- Place
- Denver, MO
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 3 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N77NCSkypower GBN-41-1000
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830509069359A
- Case key
- 33409
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The plt stated that the gondola bounced during a hard landing & was lifted by turbulent winds. After the gondola had rebounded to about 50 ft AGL, someone pulled the balloon's rip panel dumping the gas resulting in a severe hard landing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N77NC
- Reported as
- Skypower GBN-41-1000 (GBN-41-100)
- Category
- Balloon
- Serial number
- 115
- Airframe hours
- 220
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Natalie J. Caplan, doing business as Aeronautiques, Lts
- Registered owner
- Aeronautiques, Ltd
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 5, 1983 · 96 hours before
- Departed
- SUS · Chesterfield, MO
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 52
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Unknown
- Flight hours
- 1,006 total · 240 in this make and model · 1,006 as pilot in command · 1 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 140° at 18 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 54 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Observed at
- MKC, 76 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.